| I. Franklin and Armfield Office site |
| II. Slavery and American culture |
| III. Writing about slavery |
A. Colonial period
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B. Revolutionary period
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C. New nation
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D. Abolitionist movement
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| IV. Blacks writing about slave life |
A. In 1700s
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B. Up to 1830s
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C. From 1830s on
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D. Later influence
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| V. Slave narrative as literary form |
A. Structure
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1. Slave's life before awareness
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2. Slave's journey to awareness
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B. Voice
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1. From speaker's patterns
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2. In double voice
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| VI. Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl |
A. First by woman
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B. Different from male's
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C. Voice of writer
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1. Double
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2. Audience
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3. Unified
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VII. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave |
A. Cedar Hill
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B. Style
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1. Biblical references
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2. Imagery
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a. Description
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b. Figures of speech
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3. Sentence patterns
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a. Rhythm
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b. Chiasmus
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c. Oppositions
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d. Voice
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e. Parallelism
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4. Apostrophe
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C. Structure
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1. "Growlery"
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2. Story structure
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3. Episodic
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4. Double voice
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D. Model autobiography
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1. Like Franklin's
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2. For readers
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3. American "man"
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